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Abstract
Background: The transition from acute to non-specific chronic low back pain (CLBP) is especially associated with psychological factors. However, working mechanisms of psychological factors have been little examined in non-specific CLBP, especially the mediator effect of pain self-efficacy.
Objective: Does pain self-efficacy mediate the long-term prediction of work-related factors by depressive symptoms?
Methods: Within the framework of an exploratory secondary analysis, simple mediation analyses were conducted to longitudinally predict prognosis of gainful employment, as well as subjective physical and mental work ability by depressive symptoms mediated by pain self-efficacy in 382 inpatients with non-specific CLBP.
Results: The findings suggest that depressive symptoms prior to rehabilitation predicted levels of all three work-related factors 24 months after rehabilitation, and pain self-efficacy 12 months after rehabilitation mediated this relationship.
Conclusion: To improve the success of work-related rehabilitation in the long-term, pain self-efficacy in particular, but also depressive symptoms should be targeted by treatments of non-specific CLBP.
期刊介绍:
Der Schmerz is an internationally recognized journal and addresses all scientists, practitioners and psychologists, dealing with the treatment of pain patients or working in pain research. The aim of the journal is to enhance the treatment of pain patients in the long run.
Review articles provide an overview on selected topics and offer the reader a summary of current findings from all fields of pain research, pain management and pain symptom management.
Freely submitted original papers allow the presentation of important clinical studies and serve the scientific exchange.
Case reports feature interesting cases and aim at optimizing diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
Review articles under the rubric ''Continuing Medical Education'' present verified results of scientific research and their integration into daily practice.